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Overdrafts It has been established that Lance, his wife LaBelle and nine other relatives collectively amassed huge overdrafts. At one point in the confirmation hearings, Senator Javits asked Lance whether the overdrafts were repaid to the bank with interest. Lance responded, "Yes, sir." That may have been true of the period from mid-1974 to 1975. But the comptroller's report confirmed that Bert's and LaBelle's overdrafts from 1972 through the first five months of 1974 were repaid without interest...
...debut of a rival's series. In the first week of the new season, NBC will present the first of six Laugh-In specials; in the weeks that follow, there will be a four-bout evening of heavyweight boxing, a Doonesbury cartoon special and The Godfather Saga, a nine-hour, four-night extravaganza combining both movies and some outtake footage too. ABC plans a Star Wars show based on the making of the movie, while CBS is preparing a string of shows devoted to its own 50th anniversary...
More striking than the number of vans is what the vanners do to them. The workhorse vehicle formerly coveted mainly by plumbers and other craftsmen winds up as a convertible den-bedroom-kitchen within and a showcase of accessories on the outside. Furnishings are usually elaborate, often splendid. Probably nine out of ten custom vans carry eight-track stereo, and crushed-velvet upholstery is not all that unusual. Neither are stained glass windows, wine racks, built-in television, fake fire places. Mirrors are very popular-on walls and ceilings. A few vans even boast chandeliers. Some rigs cost...
...Nine years ago, he was an anonymous yoga teacher who owned little but a suitcase full of beads. Today he earns over $100,000 a year in lecture fees as Yogi Bhajan, the "Supreme Religious and Administrative Authority of the Sikh Religion in the Western Hemisphere." Thousands of American disciples in his Healthy-Happy-Holy Organization ("3HO") revere the robust, bearded Bhajan as the holiest man of this era. With equal fervor, opponents denounce him as a charlatan and a heretic...
Thus Madsen could be found not long ago up to her waist in a chilly Pocono Mountains lake, putting a nine-month-old puppy through a series of tests to develop his lifesaving instincts and skills. "He's an enthusiastic kid," Madsen told TIME Sports Editor B.J. Phillips. "He loves the water. I don't think he's been dry four days in the last three months." As one judge shivered in a windbreaker and another strode the shore line in brogans, the pup, Aesirsson, bounded out of the water and sprayed everyone within five feet with...